Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only the elite benefit | Lucky Tran

When politicians smear science, real people get hurt. I'm marching because we must fight for communities who are harmed by bad science policy

I'm marching for science today because I'm mad. Yes, I'm a mad scientist. I became a scientist because I wanted to help people. In my career I've researched gene therapy, how to engineer new antibiotics and how to make better cancer drugs. But now what I do and care about has come under attack. I'm mad at politicians for hijacking science for their own selfish interests.

I know that many people just love debating whether science should be political or not. But personally I'm not really too interested in spinning my wheels in this pyrrhic war. Science has always been political ever since we first used it to show that the Earth orbits the Sun. And right now, we haven't any time to waste.